Milk Chocolate Creme Brûlée | Valentines Dessert

I can't country y'all how uncomplicated creme brûlée is to make.  Much easier than making a cake or cookies for dessert.  You don't postulate to instruct out your large mixer, everything stirs together.  Even the ingredients are uncomplicated - every bit long every bit y'all convey cream on hand.  

When Mike in addition to I were inwards Italy for our honeymoon, nosotros treated ourself to 1 fine dining experience.  For dessert, nosotros had a milk chocolate creme brûlée amongst poached pears.  I've recreated the creme brûlée for us many times inwards the concluding 6 years.  I came across the Individual Heart Ramekins, $6

 and idea it would live the perfect affair for a particular Valentines dinner.

In the Barefoot Contessa's almost recent book, she shared her version of Chocolate Creme Brûlée.  I simplified her recipe (eliminating scalding the cream on the stove, used the microwave instead) in addition to swapped the bittersweet chocolate amongst milk chocolate - my personal preference.  Her master copy Creme Brûlée recipe tin live found, here.

Milk Chocolate Creme Brûlée

makes 4

iv egg yolks

1/2 loving cup sugar + to a greater extent than for topping

iii cups of heavy cream

8 oz. milk chocolate, chopped

1 teaspoon of vanilla

Heat oven to 275 degrees.  Heat the cream inwards the microwave until hot, add together the chocolate in addition to stir until melted.  In a batter (pourable bowl) whisk the eggs in addition to carbohydrate together.  

Slowly add together the chocolate cream mixture to the egg mixture, whisking constantly - making certain non to add together to apace or it volition develop the eggs.  Add vanilla.

Place ramekins inwards a casserole dish.  Pour chocolate mixture inwards ramekins.

Place on the oven rack.  Using a modest pitcher or touchstone cup, pour H2O inwards the casserole until it reaches one-half means upward the ramekins.  (Doing it when it is already inwards the oven saves from sloshing the H2O into the chocolate mixture on the means to the oven.)

Bake for xl to l minutes until alone a niggling jiggly.  Remove from oven, allow cool.  When cool, roll amongst plastic roll in addition to refrigerate until firm.

When ready to serve, sprinkle carbohydrate on top.  Use a kitchen torch to caramelize, or house it until a hot broiler for 1-2 minutes.  The exceed volition live crunchy, caramelized in addition to sweet.

This is a dandy recipe for entertaining because it tin live made inwards advance (even a pair of days, or the morn of), hence torched earlier serving - if y'all are using a kitchen torch, hence it is fun for the guests, too.

Individual Heart Ramekins, $6

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